Saturday, January 16

Her roommates gathered round her, their ears propped up in attention too.

‘What?’ a voice came finally. ‘What do you mean we maimed the wrong person?’ Georgina said.

‘It is what I said,’ Mrs Onwa said. ‘Harry’s death did not come by me.’

‘If you didn’t do it, then who did?’

‘I wish I had the answer to that question.’

‘Why don’t I believe you?’

‘I do not intend to convince you, Georgina. After all, what more can you do to me? You and your friends have done the worst you could already. But the truth remains that I have no good enough reason to murder Harry.’

‘You killed him because he stands against your inheriting of his father’s company.’

‘That’s a very stupid accusation. Harry and I fought several times, but it was never to the death. When I got married newly to his father, I tried all I could to make him be on my side. I did virtually everything, but he never came along so I quit. Maybe if you’ve been stepmom once before you’d know this: you can never replace someone’s true parent, no matter how hard you try.’

Georgina was quiet now.

A period of silence passed.

‘If you are still bent on avenging him,’ Mrs Onwa said, ‘meet me at Four Chefs by 4 in the evening of tomorrow, there is something you should know.’

‘I will see you there.’ Georgina ended the call.

‘Hell no, you are not going anywhere to meet that woman!’ April said.

‘I will go,’ Georgina said.

‘No, you won’t!’

‘Why?’

‘Do you actually believe all she said?’ April said.

‘Obviously she is lying,’ Loveth said.

‘That woman is rying,’ Nwamgbeke joined. ‘She is very very rying.’

‘That word is lying,’ Loveth told her. ‘And you don’t use very before it.’

‘Aproko, you will not mind your business,’ Nwamgbeke returned sharply. ‘The rying I talk is pepper your ear?’

Loveth drew back in mocking surprise. ‘See Mgbeke o,’ she said.

‘Wetin do am?’ Nwamgbeke asked her.

‘You are now feeling funky with me abi?’

‘I not funky before?’

April threw out a sudden laugh.

Georgina stood. ‘Well, there is only one way to find out if she is lying or not.’

‘And that is?’ Loveth and April chorused.

‘I will go and see her tomorrow,’ Georgina said.

She’d entered the bathroom before any of the girls could say anything else.

***

The door came open and Anthony burst into the room.

His face was damp with sweat, some of the buttons of his shirt open.

He stood in the middle of the room with his arms on his waist and face fixed into the air for long.

His chest was heaving and his sides burned.

His eyes fell on the photos of Loveth he pasted on the wall.

He went and grabbed all of them.

He tore messily at them and threw away the pieces.

He knelt to the bed and moaned out in frustrated pain.

***

It was the early morning of Saturday. Nwamgbeke was still sprawled on the bed, snoring.

April set down a huge pile of papers in front of Georgina. ‘That’s all you need to read.’

Georgina’s wide eyes ran to her. ‘Are you alright?’

April pulled a face. ‘What?’

‘I thought you said it is only a quiz.’

‘Yes, it is.’

‘If I read all these for just a quiz, how come you’ve written an exam here once without this room been crammed with books?’

‘That’s because I don’t do most of my reading here,’ April said.

Georgina wrinkled her lips. ‘Yea, right,’ she said. ‘As if you even read at all.’

April gave a small smile. ‘Babe, since the day I discovered your little secret, it cued me in.’

Slight surprise came on Georgina’s face. ‘What secret are you talking about?’ she asked.

‘Where do you normally go early Saturday mornings?’

‘Why is that relevant?’

‘Of course it is. You are always the one to bring home IV’s to parties, bring in new movies and suggest we learn a dance, yet every Saturday morning you sneak out to New Villa to read.’

‘Who told you that?’

‘Max. He goes there to read too.’

‘What are you girls saying?’ Loveth said, getting interested and rising from the bed.

‘Nothing,’ Georgina said. She turned to April. ‘And tell that your pigeon-like gay boy that if ever catch him snooping around in my business again, I’ll kill him!’

‘I think you are the one that needs to be killed for deceiving your friends!’ April said.

15 comments:

Georgie! Georgie! I hope Mrs Onwa doesn't deal with her mercilessly (like bribe the Chef to poison her food!). April had better tread carefully with Chuka. As for Anthony and Loveth, Hmmmm let me be watching. By the way where's is Abuchi? I like that character a lot. We'll done DNB

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